Episode 2 | Tim Ritchie

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Coaching, Marathons, Sports, Olympics, Running, Ultrarunning

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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“I just tried to be the best I could be in the situation I was in—and as that expanded and grew, and as the competition expanded and grew, so did my goals.”Newly minted U.S. marathon champion Tim Ritchie comes on the podcast to discuss growing up in Worcester, Massachusetts, how he went from being an average high school runner to winning a national title as a professional, the importance of developing athleticism as a runner, and what he’s learned from coaching both collegiate and age-group athletes in recent years. In this episode, the 30-year-old resident of New Haven, Connecticut also explains why he stinks at social media, the changes he made to his training and nutrition that helped him finish the final 10K of CIM stronger than his previous two marathons, what he’s been up to since his big win, and much, much more. We covered a lot of ground in this conversation and I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I did taking part in it.This episode of the morning shakeout podcast was edited by John Isaac at BaresRecords.com.Complete show notes here: http://themorningshakeout.com/podcast-episode-2-tim-ritchie/Sign up here to get the morning shakeout email newsletter delivered directly to your inbox every Tuesday morning: http://themorningshakeout.com/subscribe/Support the morning shakeout on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themorningshakeout

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0:00.0	Tim Ritchie, welcome to the Morning Shakeout Podcast.
0:03.0	Thanks Mario. Good to be with you.
0:05.0	So for those of you out there listening, one thing Tim and I share in common is we are both from Worcester, Massachusetts. And for those of you have never been to
0:16.6	Worcester, Massachusetts, it is a blue collar working man's town in the center of Massachusetts. It's no Boston, but Worcester is its own beast.
0:27.0	Tim, how would you describe the city that you grew up in?
0:31.0	Yeah, it's a pretty accurate description, I guess. The nickname is the heart of the Commonwealth, and I always think that that's pretty true, you know, Dead Center, Massachusetts. It's got, you know, the educational hub. We got 10 colleges in Worcester. An industrial city that's really starting to come back to life with all sorts of new things, biotech, medicine. But I just describe it as home, you know, all my friends are there,
0:55.3	my family's from there.
0:57.1	So for me, Worcester is just, is a hometown, you know?
1:00.6	So I was a few years ahead of you in high school, but I do remember following your career as a high school.
1:06.0	And you were a good runner at Doherty, but not really knock it out of this park great.
1:11.0	So how does a 435 high school, 434 high school
1:14.8	miler from Western Massachusetts go on to win a national title in the
1:18.8	marathon? Patience, I guess. So you start at 434 and then you run 433 you know this sport is about making small gains over a long period of time and I've just been lucky that at Doherty and since I've had coaches that have really believed in me and teammates that have really supported me and family and friends that, you know, every time I hit a new achievement
1:46.2	in running, they think it's the best thing and they want to see what's next.
1:50.6	So when you win the Worcester City cross-country championship, you know, my all my
1:57.0	supporters thought that was awesome and then they're like, okay, what's next you
2:01.4	know so it's just been it's been a long journey you
2:05.4	know just taking a lot of baby steps and like I said thankful to the people who
2:09.9	really made it possible they just have been pushing me all along since 2001. And when you were in high school, did you have visions of competing for as long as you have been at this point.
2:24.1	Obviously you went on to Boston College and ran for them,
2:28.1	but early on in your teenage years,
2:30.2	did you
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